Lauren Blair
Attorney for 25 Years with Risk Management Experience
Lauren Blair has been practicing law for more than 25 years. Lauren has been a licensed member in good standing of the Illinois bar since 1994, the year she graduated from Illinois Institute of Technology’s Chicago-Kent College of Law. Prior to law school, Lauren obtained a Bachelor of Arts in government from Cornell University. For the first 20 years of her practice, she worked in mid-size law firms in Chicago, Morristown and Los Angeles, specializing in commercial litigation and employment law counseling and litigation. In 2014, Lauren founded Lauren Blair Consulting (LBC), a Chicago-based employment law consulting firm providing legal advice, strategies and risk management for businesses and individuals on a wide range of employment matters. LBC also offers legal compliance services through workforce training, auditing employment handbooks, policies and documents, and developing best workplace practices.
Lauren was a guest writer and blogger for Today’s Chicago Woman Magazine from 2013-2014, with her online blog “Working It,” which offered an urban professional’s perspective on issues, trends and hot topics for women in Chicago’s business, civic and arts communities.